The Daily Zeitgeist - RamTrend Noodles 7/2: Campfire S'mores Cup Noodles, AOC/Supreme Court, Gen Z/Sadfishing, Karine Jean-Pierre, Airheads White Mystery Flavor

Episode Date: July 2, 2024

In this edition of RamTrend Noodles, Miles and special guest host Pallavi Gunalan discuss the new Campfire S'mores Cup Noodle, AOC submitting articles of impeachment against the Supreme Court, Gen Z and "Sadfishing", Karine Jean-Pierre on Biden's cognitive decline, Airhead's white mystery flavor revealed and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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What's going on, everybody? And welcome to this wonderful afternoon edition of Cup Noodles, S'mores, Rom Friend Noodles, which we are going to talk about. That is a very good title that i just came up with i am miles and i am joined by all of you can all in thank you so much uh as my guest host today the wonderful guest host wagon continues as we go from show to show so it's great having probably um we're gonna say what's trending on this wonderful tuesday july the two um i don't like to say second that's just a thing i have because you're always first mile you know thank you i'm always one and i don't like two places uh but the but the episode title was in reference of cup noodles there look i love cup noodles cup noodles have

gotten me through some really hard times there's still a go-to snack at time i like to spice up my cup noodles with a squeeze of lemon and a little bit of cilantro and you can take the chicken one to the next fucking level if you have to oh my god yes i grew up i grew up trying to just add my little things to things there and uh that was one of them. But anyway, Cup Noodles has definitely had this run of releasing all kinds of wacky flavors. They had a caffeinated gaming Cup Noodle that was like, yeah, man, this will give you heart palpitations, but at least you might be killing it in a Battle Royale type game. It's nice that they included the Four Local in it.

You used to have to drink that separately in my generation but now they just poured it right in exactly boil the noodles drain it then use four loco as your new base broth yeah yeah yeah like a nice four lox base uh when i get this really wonderful broth going um but yeah the new one is campfire s'mores cup noodle, as they call it a quote, gooey, sweet noodle experience. I do not like this. Stop. It says go on a quote, an unmistakable blend of decadent chocolate, marshmallow, and graham cracker flavors with noodles.

Now I know what they're doing. Cause they do this all the time is what always talk about this when brands do it. They're just trying to get us to talk about it. Congratulations. But sometimes we got to talk about it because some of the ideas are so backwards. I can't believe that that's even a thing. I think jokes on them. We should buy the shit out of it and force them to make it forever.

We're like, yeah, we're not eating the chicken one. The shrimp one. No fuck that. Only s'mores. I guess. Are marshmallows vegan friendly? There are vegan marshmallows. But not traditional. They're better than.

No. Traditional marshmallows are not vegan. But the vegan marshmallows. I think are better than. Regular marshmallows. And other people who are not vegan. Have told me the same thing. Oh shit. I mean. I'm not like such a marshmallow fan where i feel like i'd be like oh these are

vegan you know what i mean how some people are like that with certain foods but yeah i need an animal to suffer for this to taste yeah what is it just gelatin is that's probably what it makes it like gelatin maybe like do they use like any egg or dairy products in it i don't know i don't know yeah here's something like i know everything in a marshmallow it's a white puffy sugar cloud uh but it's like the like one of the uh executives at the parent company uh of cup noodles uh nishin is i know the japanese company that owns them this dude said released a statement just like acting like just waxing poetic about how this s'mores cup noodle is, quote, transforming the classic flavor into a bold, unexpected experience that will capture the hearts and palates of consumers nationwide. Which is why not a single fucking one of the freaky flavors has existed past the little bump you need in, I guess, impressions or something.

If you capture a palette that enjoys that let it go yeah like release it back into the wild yeah we don't need it um next up is trending uh aoc impeachment um so on monday alexandria ocasio-cortez said that she will submit articles of impeachment against members of the U.S. Supreme Court when the House of Representatives gets back into session from their little summer break. As she said on Twitter, we don't call it X here, quote, the Supreme Court has become consumed by a corruption crisis beyond its control. Today's ruling represents an assault on American democracy. It's up to congress to defend our nation from this authoritarian capture i intend on filing articles of impeachment upon our return now

how does that work so it would be like anything like you would have a trial and then like you would you know you'd send it to the senate for like a conviction uh but the last time a supreme court justice was actually impeached successfully was the 19th century so i i'm not sure what will happen here but again also considering the fact that the republicans control the house that i don't think this has much of a shot unless there are other people who are just being like well i don't like katanji so maybe i'll vote for this uh because most of them have been celebrating the supreme court decision that gives trump basic immunity for official acts i think the best we can do

sorry my dog is growling right now because he hates the supreme court no i get no good those are good good job sammy um i'm training him to just bark uh for a bit um I think the best thing we can do is just, somebody's got to take him over to the team, promise Clarence Thomas a few yachts a year or whatever he needs, and then just pay them to get the fuck out

of there. If they can be bribed to fake do their job. Was John Oliver doing that? Basically saying, I'll give you a salary that's bigger than the one you got to fuck off forever yeah you down with that well we need to do that with like a lot of them yeah yeah i mean or like again this is just so wild too because like on the heels of what joe biden was saying after this decision he's like well i'm gonna respect the limits like the scope of my power that doesn't help anything and you're basically saying i'm gonna lay down

and get just ripped apart if you have someone coming in who's already being like i can't wait to exercise my power when there are no checks on my power yay i know i don't yeah like do something with the supreme court i think the best thing we can do is try to convince joe biden like the limits of his power are beyond what he actually thinks they are and just be like yeah you can assassinate people like that yeah that was always legal all right well number one is like well i got some people from my childhood i want to check it like well no not like that mr president yeah some other people yeah what about anita hill oh my god she was a real pill for me

during clarence thomas's confirmation you're like okay you know what okay you shouldn't have my bad my bad i told you do not tell him about shit after 6 p.m he starts saying some do some free associating shit don't tell him anything after 6 p.m it's like don't get a gremlin wet or like yeah don't tell joe biden any fact after 6 p any fact oh my god and we're still left with only one option anyway um and then also on the heels of that uh proclamation from the supreme court that trump is god king of america he's also saying like i should have my frank electors entire case dismissed because of what the supreme court just did also those 34 felonies those should also be thrown out as well um so you know he's already completely gone full speed ahead with

being like nothing can fucking touch me anymore um so we'll see a developing story as we watch the continued deterioration of the nation hey that continued deterioration of the nation. Hey, that rhymes. Deterioration of the nation. New show coming this fall. All right. We will take a quick break and we will be right back with some other trending stories. I've been thinking about you.

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and we're back um the new york post has a story out about how gen z is quote sad fishing uh it's trend on uh social media um i did not know what this was but according to a 2021 research paper published in the journal of american college that sounds like a dubious journal american college the school of education i i'm sorry um then there's a yeah anyway there's another person who said on news so i take this with a grain of salt but i think this is something where people are like observing a trend and be like this this could be something very interesting um that the habit of quote sad fishing is defined as the tendency of social media users to publish exaggerations of their personality to generate sympathy uh the research found that many sad fishers display anxious

attachment it concluded that this may quote uh may not be triggered by an acute perceived lack of social support but rather it may be more strongly related to the persistent trait of anxious attachment um and i'm like sad fishing um like i mean i definitely know people who are like always like oversharing in stories. You know what? If you don't want to follow me, then just say that. Look, I'm not really good at confrontation. I like to passive aggressively confront people using stories from the New York.

Yeah. Yeah. Why don't you come on? But I was just thinking about this thing about the American Journal of College. I was thinking about this thing about how you don't invite me to dinner anymore. What the fuck is this about? Don't worry about the story, man. Now we're talking, you and me.

What's going on with us? What's going on with you? Would I say something? I don't think you said something. I've definitely seen, I definitely have a lot of friends who will post, like, pictures of them crying and be life is falling apart and it happens like frequently you know and it's like whatever life's hard cope out how you will but I do think that like it's just because it's social media I feel like the housewives in the 50s were doing this they were just like ominously like making pies and being sad you know what I mean right like i don't know if the expression of it

is bad i think like treat the symptom or the source rather than the symptoms yeah like one of the these uh like psychologists who was talking about it said um if you're putting anything on social media what is your motivation for what you need or want people to know who are not in your circle what is your reason for posting what's your motivation for posting something though for the whole world to see which is a very generational observation very boomer sounding that's like something my mom would say like why would you share that i'm like mom you come from a generation where people you you refuse to acknowledge that therapy is a thing or that outwardly expressing what your needs are or your regrets are is like that's actually healthy also like if you give me money i'll stop expressing shit but i can't i can't i'm not even kidding like if you give me

if you give me a house what what sadness am i going to express our generations of the generation below us don't have money this is all we need lights okay we need some form of currency that we can pretend we like will bring us value because we can't get actual currency and so what yeah so what if i lie about pretending to lose my job for sympathy likes i'm gonna do it yeah i'm just gonna do it we're or we're like we have a job that's not paying enough yeah whatever well it's weird too because like i mean obviously this is the new york post so of course they're gonna go into like and something is wrong with those people anyway millennials killed wine and genzy killed sadness like like authentic sadness you know what happened to the strong silent type

what happened to like when you go to your second wife's house right yeah your secret family yeah exactly family right and you're really sad because you're gonna miss your first kid's birthday shit yeah sad i always love how like but my favorites still are those the ways they try and like define or articulate just the disillusionment with capitalism that workers experience yeah it's resenteeism it's uh it's quiet quite quitting resignations and shit like that it's like no it's called being alienated from your labor and yeah uh there's that story so thanks american college of journal um and for giving us that uh the next thing trending is corinne jean-pierre uh white house spokesperson again while uh people are still reeling from the debate performance um she was she

was asked a pretty direct question um about what is going on with joe biden is is there some kind of cognitive decline that you know of? And this was her answer. Does President Biden at 81 years old have Alzheimer's, any form of dementia or degenerative illness that cause these sorts of lapses? And it's a yes or no question. And if you don't know, why don't you as one of his senior staff members know i have an answer for you are you ready for it it's a no and i hope you're asking the other guy the same exact question okay yeah fair absolutely fair uh but i don't expect her to

be like well you know i got my theories she's like he's in decline i'm in denial but i didn't want a sad fish on you yeah and also you know jen sake left and already got the gig at msnbc so my options are kind of limited right now i don't want to do a podcast quite yet feels a little desperate but the short answer is no um but yeah it's like at the very least you know you can be like you know sometimes you know people i don't know i don't even know if i'm like asking like can you acknowledge that he had a senior moment or whatever but we're so far past this like what like if she's like no his performance was still bad so it's like, he's at the top of his game and that's what we got. You know what I mean?

Follow up question. That's the top of his game? What the fuck was that? So, well, that was an off night. When is he at the top of his game? When he's screaming about stuff. It's pretty good. It's pretty invigorating.

I love how, like, obviously like obviously vote blue no matter who twitter is like this was such a fantastic answer like let's let's ignore all the warning signs um and yeah and i get it too like obviously trump is also spiraling before our eyes but it's just so funny that the mirror the fact that he is in a more energetic version of decline people are like joe biden's getting old and yeah we already that's the thing is that like trump is such a bad candidate and the only person that is currently like beating him at like being horrible at campaigning is joe biden like if they had picked anyone else it would have been like so much easier yeah but they were like let's resuscitate this man one more night yeah you know see what we can get see what we can get um and

then finally this is a topic very near and dear to my heart and maybe millennials and and younger uh airheads the candy um used to love eating them they would always sell them like at the snack shop in like my junior high like you know like you could buy little snacks or whatever in the cafeteria and in high school and there was always this airhead flavor white mystery flavor and i was like what the fuck like you never knew what it was that was every guy in utah growing up you know what i mean white mystery who will replace joe biden on the ticket it's a white mystery it's a white mystery it's a white mystery it ain't common why do they put raisins in there that's a white

mystery white mystery some things are just white flavor mysteries that we will not be able to suss out um but it turns out we've recently found out through the takeout one of my favorite food blogs because i like always they report on things that are important to me um it's apparently a combination a food blog yeah i think if you're like if you're like a millennial though it's like one of those things right you're like it's a food pyramid was yeah just like but what was it what was white mystery flavor like what the fuck was supposed to be and apparently it said it might it's a combination of several flavors that might include cherry strawberry watermelon grape green apple orange and blue raspberry from one day to the next it's

the scraps they put the scraps together it's exact that's exactly what it is yeah so they were kind of like we shouldn't be throwing away this stuff when we're like switching flavors so what we can do is take the mishmash parts and rebrand it as mystery and now we've got a little bit of a marketing hit we got a little bit of you know intrigue for and like we're not we're not actually wasting the candy that we're making uh you're also gaslighting everyone into thinking they're all tasting the same flavor. But they're like different combinations. This is more like cherry grape. Yours is blue.

I don't know, dude. They all say the same to me. I don't know, man. Maybe you should visit your neurologist or something. But apparently, so they don't stop production in between making the different flavors. So, quote, instead of pausing and cleaning the machinery between rounds of, say, cherry and grape, it keeps turning out. God forbid they clean the machinery. God forbid they pass the food inspection test.

Yeah, right. Seriously. I think it's more just to be like to clean out all the flavor, you know what I mean? To get it out to the next thing. So it just keeps churning out candies, but they don't put the food dye in it. So it just comes out and it's like natural. It's natural white state. So the mystery flavors quote are essentially mashups of whichever flavors

are being produced at any given time. That is really unsatisfying, but also like, I feel like that we Bay meme. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay.

I don't know about that. So, yeah, we've solved one of life's small mysteries. We did it. The answer was capitalism. Thank you so much for joining me on this trending episode. We will chat more tomorrow on the main episode. Spoiler alert. Holly and I are taking over.

Oh, my God. We will talk to you then. And until then, take care of yourselves. Take care of each other. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy and please just be well and we will see you soon. Okay. Bye-bye. Bye, everybody.

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